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The National Museum has a famous painting called "Seeing a Ghost Through the Window". It is a picture of a female ghost during the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty. Because it is not signed, the painter has always been a mystery. This female ghost painting is quite realistic and has a strange style. It makes people feel cold when they see it. Many netizens said they dare not look at it. What kind of female ghost is this? Let's take a look together.

At first glance, this is a corner of a huge room. There are many books, various collections, flowers and plants in the room. It looks like a study.

Looking more closely, I saw that in such a room full of books, there was actually a green-haired evil ghost in the middle, with a beautiful woman seemingly pressed under him. Right behind the evil ghost, there was half a face on the window, and it saw everything after poking through the window paper.

What does the evil ghost want to do to the beautiful woman? Why does he appear in the study? Who is the person outside the window? What does the painter want to express?

If you zoom in 10 times, you will gasp. You can see the evil ghost lying on a big table, wearing a leopard skin skirt, and drawing eyes for the "beauty" with a pen in his right hand. It turns out that the so-called beauty is a human skin. The evil ghost wants to put on the skin of a young and beautiful woman to achieve the purpose of "splitting people's stomachs and digging out their hearts". There is also a pile of beautiful clothes next to the human skin. The young man outside the window must have been scared to death when he saw all this.

In fact, the artist used the form of painting to reproduce the story of "Painted Skin" in "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio". It tells the story of a scholar from Shanxi who met a beautiful woman on the road, fell in love with her at first sight, and took the woman home.

A few days later, the scholar went out and met a Taoist priest. Seeing the scholar's complexion, the Taoist priest immediately concluded that he was possessed by an evil spirit. However, the scholar was skeptical after hearing the reminder, so he hid outside the window late at night and peeked. As a result, he saw the horrifying scene in the painting.

This story warns people not to be deceived by beautiful appearances, so as to avoid being deceived, or even bring disaster upon themselves. However, this unknown painter recreated this terrifying scene with his brush.

Late at night, the evil ghost revealed his true form, his body was green and his face was hideous, he held a pen in his hand and carefully drew on the human skin. The human skin beauty in his hand was extremely beautiful, with willow-leaf thin eyebrows, white skin and red lips, and there were piles of clothes disguised as the evil ghost next to him, while the scholar outside the window had eyes full of fear.

The whole picture is exquisite and lifelike. The evil ghost and the beautiful woman's skin form a strong contrast, which increases the sense of fear sharply. Coupled with the pair of eyes outside the window, the viewer has a strong sense of substitution, as if he is in the painting, in the quiet night... It's terrifying when you think about it.